After starting docker swarm with port 1376, cannot docker init nor docker leave

Question

I am following the Docker Get Started tutorial ( https://docs.docker.com/get-started/part4/ )

After starting two virtual machines, I attempted to docker init swarm . Unfortunately, I did not read closely enough and passed in port 2376 instead of 2377 .

Things did not go as expected (expectedly) when trying to attach a second vm as a node, and I attempted to use docker swarm leave to leave the swarm and start over. I got a weird message and it suggested I use --force. I did.

Now I cannot run docker swarm init with port 2377:

Error response from daemon: This node is already part of a swarm. Use "docker swarm leave" to leave this swarm and join another one.

Nor can I run docker swarm leave :

Error response from daemon: This node is not part of a swarm

I'm puzzled, surely I'm missing something obvious--any tips? 🤔

Answer 1

I wound up just tearing everything down. I deleted my virtualbox VMs and used docker-machine rm <vm> to remove the docker instances.